I genuinely love all of the side characters here.I do wish she had more scenes, though one main one of hers was lost. Does Isabel Jewell have the absolute best hair ever? I mean, look at it! Absolutely stunning here.Frank Capra movies man… nothing like ‘em.I had many thoughts while watching Lost Horizon, as you can see below: Related - ‘Sabrina’ (1954): Review & Thoughts Thoughts I Had While Watching Lost Horizon (1937)īernard (Thomas Mitchell) and Gloria (Isabel Jewell) I watched this movie on Criterion Channel, for those looking to stream it! It’s a shame minutes of the movie were lost, but I still felt the way it was restored and edited worked wonders. Regardless, I did really enjoy this movie and recommend anyone who likes old movies to watch it if they haven’t already!Īlso, as a side note, for a movie that was mainly lost, with only terrible quality film remaining, this movie looks surprisingly great in almost all areas. I do feel as if a slightly different ending would’ve been better… but I also don’t know if a different ending would’ve worked. However, I do feel as if something was just slightly lacking. It also happens to have a great script written by Robert Riskin and is brilliantly directed by Frank Capra. It’s a great film with a great cast (from leads to character actors in supporting roles). With all of this said, I really did enjoy Lost Horizon. But I’m still working my way through his list of greats, so my current favorite will likely continue to change. I quite enjoy Lost Horizon - and I quite enjoyed this movie. Sondra (Jane Wyatt) and Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) Conway, meanwhile, tries to uncover the truth of this land - and whether it truly is a utopia after all. While many in the group slowly become to love this new place, Conway’s brother George desperately wants to leave. Utopia, isolated from the rest of the world. Luckily for them, a group of natives arrives and takes them to their land - Shangri-La. Eventually, the plane crashes into the snowy Himalayas, the pilot dying on impact, and the group left with no chance of survival. Soon enough, the plane passengers realize that their pilot is kidnapping them and taking them somewhere else. The last plane to leave, the passengers include Conway’s brother George (John Howard), deathly sick American Gloria (Isabel Jewell), British paleontologist Lovett (Edward Everett), and friendly and talkative Barnard (Thomas Mitchell). In this film, Colman plays Robert Conway, a revered diplomat who manages to help other Brits escape from a Chinese revolution. Shangri-La is synonymous with utopia and has become a worldwide mythical place thanks to the bestselling novel by James Hilton, which this movie is based on. This led me to recently watch Lost Horizon (1937), an incredibly interesting Ronald Colman-led movie about a group of people who discover Shangri-La - also known as Shambala, a Tibetan mythical place. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.As a big fan of Frank Capra, I’ve begun to try to watch every film the director ever made. November’s Oscar® Sundays are programmed as part of the series Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years, guest programmed by Arthur Dong. CAST: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard. The National Film Registry considered the film differently, however, when in 2016 it honored the film as “an emotional respite to an American public seeking escape from the Depression and yearning for their own personal utopias.” Lost Horizon received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and produced wins for Film Editing (Stephen Goosson) and Art Direction (Gene Havlick, Gene Milford). The Oscar-winning art direction presents an opulent Shangri-La, yet the story is predicated on the subjugation of the Chinese by white saviors and colonialist, missionary ideals. This Frank Capra-directed classic is emblematic of how Hollywood constructed paradise-by way of China.
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